Yes Ford is building the Mexican factories, but they’re still making a much larger investment here.

I think everybody’s going to be severly disapointed. Everybody thinks it’s going to be a scaled down S, but it’ll probably be close to the Bolt. Nobody has seen a thing about the car yet, and it’s already the best ever, ultra luxury, high performance, way better than that shitty GM. Yeah, sure, Tesla’s going to sell a…

Great points. I’ll just add one thing: the housing bubble would have been a moderate downturn similar to the dot com bubble if not for the derivatices market. Completely unregulated, there was anywhere from 5 to 10 times as much money bet on derivatives of mortgage-backed debt instruments as on the mortgages…

There are already complaints of bias towards a particular manufacturer:

“X is not as bad as Y, therefore we shouldn’t care about X” is a pretty stupid argument to be making.

I’m’a help you out here by highlighting the key word in that article.

people didn’t give a shit about leaded gas either because “nobody died,” but tetraethyl lead had severe and long-lasting effects.

Here’s a piece on it I doubt you’ll read, as you’ll likely continue your confirmation bias. Direct individual deaths? Maybe not, but shortened lives and lower quality of life assuredly. Justify however you please.

I can’t wait for this car to be released next year!

I’d be curious to hear about the specifics of this. JD Power does, indeed, give out a lot of awards. If you’re not familiar with how they’re distinguished from each other, or what each one means, it’s very easy to assume they’re for something else.

Ford doesnt get any love for huge profits yet tesla gets love for......um well i still dont know...because of the green spin? and carbon credits?

Works for Tesla, too!

I agree with you for the most part, and I’d advocate for more education on the subject more than just buying snow tires. So many people get AWD options on vehicles when buying snow tires would probably be cheaper and offer better traction, not to mention fuel saving of a more efficient drivetrain. That or understand…

The disposable car culture doesn’t help, either. When so many insist on leasing (especially) or buying a new car every three years or so, buying a whole second set of wheels and tires to get maybe 2.5 winters out of them seems silly to most of those people.

It’s only an inch of snow, but IT’S THE WORST INCH OF SNOW EVER!!!!111

my street doesn’t even get plowed if there is that little on it

Those who regularly back up trailers don’t really need the assistance stuff...it does make it much easier for those who rarely back up trailers though.

So, Tesla turned to a German company for an over-engineered, overly complicated solution and expected it not to have reliability issues? I’m not a lawyer, but is there such a thing as criminal naivety or such that Hoerbringer can counter sue for?

But we’re limited by our source for fossil fuels. Our involvement in the Middle East is far and away due to cheap oil, and Obama’s driving point about the limitation of fossil fuels comes from leaving our energy requirements vulnerable to outside forces.

I think the key benefit of going electric with vehicles is that almost anything can be used to generate electricity. Whatever the future fuel turns out to be, or not be, it will generate electricity. It is a sort of universal translator for energy. Coal, ng, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, oil are all currently used to…